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A mirror reflects a man’s face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses.

Colin Powell

You should never be so involved with your position/job that when the position is gone your entire self image is gone with it.
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Image Job Position Yourself
Always focus on the front windshield and not the review mirror.
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Focus Future Mirror Review
Don’t be buffaloed by experts and elites. Experts often possess more data than judgment. Elites can become so inbred that they produce hemophiliacs who bleed to death as soon as they are nicked by the real world.
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Blood Death Expert Judgement Reality World
There is no such thing as an unimportant person in an organization.
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Important Organization Person Value Worth
Don’t let adverse facts stand in the way of a good decision.
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Decision Fact Goodness Stand Way
Don’t just count your days, make your days count.
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Count Days Yourself
What could be more important than equipping the next generation with the character and competence they need to become successful
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Generation Important Need Success
Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
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Force Multiply Optimism
If you get the dirty end of the stick, sharpen it and turn it into a useful tool.
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Dirty End Tools Yourself
Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.
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Hard Work People Play Serious Work
As a leader you set the tone for your entire team. Communicate your vision.
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Communication Leadership Team Vision Yourself
Give me the right people and I don’t much care what organization you give me. Good things will happen. Give me the wrong people and it doesn’t matter what you do with the organization. Bad things will happen.
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Care Goodness Organization People Right Yourself
If everybody trusts one another, then the person who didn’t prevail will faithfully execute the decision as if it was their idea.
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Decision Execution Faith Ideas Oneself Person Trust
My own experience is that you get as much information as you can and then you pay attention to your intuition, to your informed instinct.
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Attention Experience Information Intuition Pay Yourself
We are not trapped in what the science of management says we can do. We are capable of doing what the art of leadership says is possible.
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Art Leadership Management Possible Science
I think whether you’re having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.
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Attitude Leadership Role Thinking Win

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